You realize that all those signs in a restaurant that say "Owner not responsible for stolen items" in the coat check area don't make it necessarily so, right?
I hate to quibble but Sealand is not a country...just some idiot occupying some old English WWII structure. If Britain wanted to end his daydream of nationhood it would be over in five minutes and no one would care.
Unfortunately it can't remember where you last were located when browsing, you can't list all the songs by an artist, 1.5 hours to transfer 2100 songs (instead of the iPod's 15 minutes) and a wall of noise in the output. Final conclusion? 'If there was a way I could return this thing, I'd do it in a second.' So close, yet so far."
I wonder if the reviewer made an honest mistake and actually received a genuine Sorny product. Anyway, I would have went with a Panaphonics.
The entire notion of a "national edition" newspaper is silly one. Even the so-called "newspaper of record" -- the New York Times barely sells outside of New York. People don't want to read newspapers from far-off cities that don't cover events of interest to them.
Can you give me a good reason why someone in New York or Washington, D.C. would be interested in the Los Angeles Times? And if you can, are there enough people in those two cities who want to read that paper and is the coverage that good they would skip over local newspapers?
I don't think the interweb had that much to do with this though I'm sure it hastened the process.
Lets asume they have read all of them. How many are they going to ever re-read? Not many, they have to make a living and get a life.
So why do they have the books? Posturing. Showing off. There is no other reason.
Sure, I suppose it has nothing to do with books that aren't available in digital format. When you need a reference that impressive collection of books comes in handy...speaking as a person with a large collection of books. I have more than a few books that are out of print and yet remain useful...Do you think those very erudite people want to wait while an intra-library loan takes place?
It's increasingly difficult to take anything that Slashdot contributors take seriously if they keep editorializing in their comments. The BBC is now balanced?
I've been a consumer of the BBC for nearly two decades and balanced is the last word I would use to describe it.
There are people who bitch and moan every time a non-violent offender is sent to jail but are celebrating that someone who sends email would serve jail time. Nice.
I don't like spam anymore than anyone else but my advice to you is to install a spam filter and shut up. I get one piece of spam a day. If you can't bare that toll, time to get off the Interweb. Sending people to jail is not the answer.
Anna Marie Cox's opinion is probably worth what you paid for it.
On the otherhand, I agree with Drezner. Comparing bloggers with journalists is unfair because most bloggers do not do original journalism and nor do many of them wish to. They do serve, however, as a fact checking body and oversight committee on mainstream journalism. In the past two years they have been responsible for a number of high profile corrections by newspapers and news outlets and they should be congratulated for it.
Ontario is a province where when a conservative was elected and followed through on his promises, people got angry. A liberal then was elected and broke all of his promises and his poll numbers eventually improved. Canada...land of the free...welfare cheque.
Most of the games are dogs but Sword of Fargoal? Man, was I ever addicted to that game. I played it so long a few times that the C-64 was as hot as the power supply.
I likes me a good Firefox browser -- my sig should be proof of that -- but we really all should relax about how well it's doing. For one thing we have absolutely no reliable numbers about how many people are using it (outside of downloads and that doesn't give an entirely accurate picture either). Secondly, I don't think it's an unfair statement to say that the mainstream public is mostly unaware of browser alternatives and does not use Firefox.
I think that will improve but to start declaring that it's setting the world "ablaze" is a bit premature and silly.
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I regret to inform you that the rod up your ass has a rod up its ass.
You realize that all those signs in a restaurant that say "Owner not responsible for stolen items" in the coat check area don't make it necessarily so, right?
Well said.
I hate to quibble but Sealand is not a country...just some idiot occupying some old English WWII structure. If Britain wanted to end his daydream of nationhood it would be over in five minutes and no one would care.
Who is Wil Wheaton?
I don't know a single person who ever thought that show was funny or entertaining.
I wonder if the reviewer made an honest mistake and actually received a genuine Sorny product. Anyway, I would have went with a Panaphonics.
Can you give me a good reason why someone in New York or Washington, D.C. would be interested in the Los Angeles Times? And if you can, are there enough people in those two cities who want to read that paper and is the coverage that good they would skip over local newspapers?
I don't think the interweb had that much to do with this though I'm sure it hastened the process.
So why do they have the books? Posturing. Showing off. There is no other reason.
Sure, I suppose it has nothing to do with books that aren't available in digital format. When you need a reference that impressive collection of books comes in handy...speaking as a person with a large collection of books. I have more than a few books that are out of print and yet remain useful...Do you think those very erudite people want to wait while an intra-library loan takes place?
In Soviet Russia your eyes see you!
Well, when you put it that way :-)
It's increasingly difficult to take anything that Slashdot contributors take seriously if they keep editorializing in their comments. The BBC is now balanced?
I've been a consumer of the BBC for nearly two decades and balanced is the last word I would use to describe it.
Supernova is up as of a few minutes ago but I can't get to Lokitorrent.
Wow! So what you're saying is that still almost no one is using it, right? :-)
That's an assumption. How do you know that I don't run a server?
I don't like spam anymore than anyone else but my advice to you is to install a spam filter and shut up. I get one piece of spam a day. If you can't bare that toll, time to get off the Interweb. Sending people to jail is not the answer.
Anna Marie Cox's opinion is probably worth what you paid for it. On the otherhand, I agree with Drezner. Comparing bloggers with journalists is unfair because most bloggers do not do original journalism and nor do many of them wish to. They do serve, however, as a fact checking body and oversight committee on mainstream journalism. In the past two years they have been responsible for a number of high profile corrections by newspapers and news outlets and they should be congratulated for it.
> Since then his blog WWDN has allowed him a creative outlet that has made the world sit up and take notice.
Like who?
Ontario is a province where when a conservative was elected and followed through on his promises, people got angry. A liberal then was elected and broke all of his promises and his poll numbers eventually improved. Canada...land of the free...welfare cheque.
Most of the games are dogs but Sword of Fargoal? Man, was I ever addicted to that game. I played it so long a few times that the C-64 was as hot as the power supply.
Baby, you're a rich man!
I still use my 1996 IBM Thinkpad 760E. 32MB of RAM with a 120 Mhz processor.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, Microsoft and Windows weren't a glint in anyone's eyes when the decline of the American school system began.
Ummmmmmmmmm.....because you have a lot of video tapes that you don't have the time or inclination to convert them into another format?
I think that will improve but to start declaring that it's setting the world "ablaze" is a bit premature and silly.